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Unusual object or farm on Google Earth
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Anyone know what this is? It's about 25 miles south of El Rosario and I see some farming in the general area to the north.
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New location for Area 51! 
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Una pista de aterrizaje para OVNIs. What else?
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the governor, or Teo has a landing strip near his spread. why do you think they started the road widening in that area, of all places?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by lencho
Data error of some sort-- doesn't look at all like actually part of the terrain it covers. There are a number of other partially transparent blotches
up to the north and west a couple of km.
BTW your imbedded latitude is about 10 degrees off... 
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Larry, Larry, Larry, that's just what they want you to think. These 'data errors' are going to keep
showing up, moving and growing until 2012.
I think the world is run by C- students.
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Noah`s ark?
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Santiago
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I think this is man made: look at the edges and you'll see little half circles as if a tractor was pulling a blade or something and made a turn.
There are clearly farming patches to the north a few miles but I can't tell if this is a crop of some sort or a building. At .40 miles I doubt it's a
building.
As the surfing in this area is A-1, maybe Mr. Clark of the old Clark Foam has secretly set up shop?? He used to always rage against the machine in
his year-end newsletters if I recall.
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The area was definately cleared by tractors, you can see the typical patterns they leave on the edges. The area is not paved, and theres no structure
in there. Now, its definately too wide for a landing field, so my guess is that its some sort of plantation. It appears to be in a sort of canyon, so
that might explain the shape of the field.
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I agree with the ag thesis. The area appears to be bottomland, not unlike what they cultivate near the highway east of El Rosario. The area
immediately to the northeast appears to be a fallow field. On the Inegi topo, it also appears relatively flat. Onions or peppers anyone?
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Santiago
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DK had to drive right passed this on his trip. You see anything Daveed?
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Santiago
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And also, if it were a plowed field, why are the ends such perfect half circles? Is there a way of knowing when a photo was taken in GE?
[Edited on 12-8-2009 by Santiago]
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
Anyone know what this is? It's about 25 miles south of El Rosario and I see some farming in the general area to the north. |
Looks like Mark Spitz is secretly training to make a comeback.
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It's a uranium enrichment facility...
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
Is there a way of knowing when a photo was taken in GE?
[Edited on 12-8-2009 by Santiago] |
In the View Menu you can check the Historical Imagery. While mousing over the area of interest, the date of the image will be displayed in the lower
left corner of the view. The latest date appears to be April 4, 2005.
[Edited on 12-8-2009 by Frigatebird]
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Perhaps .... ?
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
And also, if it were a plowed field, why are the ends such perfect half circles?
[Edited on 12-8-2009 by Santiago] |
I'm no commercial farmer, but it looks like the radius of those circles is equal to half the width of the field. Perhaps the equipment traces out
those semicircles when it pulls the U-ee. Looks like the northeast end got done first as it is not as circular as the other. Practice makes perfect.
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Frigatebird
| Quote: | Originally posted by Santiago
And also, if it were a plowed field, why are the ends such perfect half circles?
[Edited on 12-8-2009 by Santiago] |
I'm no commercial farmer, but it looks like the radius of those circles is equal to half the width of the field. Perhaps the equipment traces out
those semicircles when it pulls the U-ee. Looks like the northeast end got done first as it is not as circular as the other. Practice makes perfect.
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Upon further review, the field seems to wide for any equipment I've seen to be done on a single pass.
How 'bout this, maybe they have a GPS based tractor guidance, or a history with NASCAR.
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Its in the San Carlos Valley--along the road to Punta San Carlos, a pretty popular destination---maybe someone can check it out if they're heading
that way....that's a pretty dry area to be setting up sophisticated farming but who knows....there are some mines nearby as well.....
Years ago, sometime in the early 80s my brother and I went out to Punta San Carlos...on the way out we passed a huge stakebed truck filled to the top
with sacks of potatoes...I knew there was a little farming out there in the valley but potatoes need substantial water...I looked and looked on the
way in for a farm that perhaps had drilled for some groundwater but didn't see anything except dry pasture....it wasn't until we got to the beach and
seeing guys with shovels that we realized that the potato sacks were filled with beach pebbles!
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I first thought it was an agricultural project covered with the ubiquitous plastic greenhousing....but then began to think outside the box....the
cave art in Baja has suggested that Baja was once inhabited by tall people (didn't someone find an unusually long thigh bone in Baja once, a find
adding credence to the myth?)....well, the tall people DO exist in Baja and have taken up the sport of curling....that's one big mutha sheet of
ice
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I'm with Diver on this one.
Damn! Those Inguns were big!
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